How many of us have wanted a reliable, evidence-based guide to aging that explains how our bodies and minds change as we grow older and how to adapt to those differences?
Creating a work of this kind is challenging. For one thing, aging gradually alters people over decades, a long period shaped by individuals' economic and social circumstances, their behaviors, their neighborhoods, and other factors. Also, while people experience common physiological issues in later life, they don't follow a well-charted, developmentally predetermined path.
Leipzig told me she had two goals in writing this guide: "to overcome all the negatives that are out there about growing older" and "to help people understand that there are lots of things that you can do to adapt to your new normal as you age and have an enjoyable, engaged, meaningful life." Several months ago, a medical student asked Leipzig whether references to age should be left out of a patient's written medical history, as references to race have been eliminated. "I told her no; with medicine, age is always relevant," Leipzig said. "It gives you a sense of where people are in their life, what they've lived through, and the disorders they might have, which are different than those in younger people.
Can the stages of aging be broken down, roughly, by decade? No, said Leipzig, noting that people in their 60s and 70s vary significantly in health and functioning. Typically, predictable changes associated with aging "start to happen much more between the ages of 75 and 85," she told me. Here are a few of the age-related issues she highlights in her book:
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